Don Wettrick is a teacher in Noblesville, Indiana and founder of StartEdUp Innovation. He can be found on Twitter at @donwettrick, and his podcast on iTunes He is the author of “Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level”

Don Wettrick is a teacher in Noblesville, Indiana and founder of StartEdUp Innovation. He can be found on Twitter at @donwettrick, and his podcast on iTunes He is the author of “Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level”

Zaretta Hammond is the author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students. You can find her on the web at Ready4rigor.com and on Twitter at @ready4rigor

Culturally responsive teaching is seen as classroom management or one-off - both of these are wrong. It is really about learning.

Dependent vs. Independent learners

Brains aren’t any different, but the system is stacked against them.

It’s about getting students to take control of their own learning.

Once learning is relevant, then students can be engaged.

Multi-cultural education vs. culturally responsive education.

Where to start (Thanks to @feedurmind_read) in culturally responsive teaching.

Leader to create the conversation to talk about our students.

Counter-narratives - acknowledge the dominant narratives. Not about preaching from the leader.